Mindshare book was designed for easy understanding and learning. This book carry on the tradition. The first chapter compare PCIe against PCI and PCI/X, it provides an important perspective.

this book was written before the pci express standard was ratified so much of the information is speculative. nevertheless, it is well written and complete.

I have 2 PCEe books and this one is the best one. I don't have any experience on PCI and PCI-X. This books really have a lot of basic stuff which is very good for PCIe beginners.

It's huge, and slow going, but the book is quite detailed and generally clear explaining the concepts.

It's huge, and slow going, but the book is quite detailed and generally clear explaining the concepts.

I have got a brand new book for price of a used book. Without any damage, with very good binding it's a satisfactory purchase.

I have got a brand new book for price of a used book. Without any damage, with very good binding it's a satisfactory purchase.

The index on this thing is worthless... The whole point of having a reference book, in my opinion, is to have quick, easy access to information when I need it. The point is not to have to read the book from cover to cover in order to find the information you need. Each time I try to get something out of this book, I get more and more frustrated.

On one hand, there's the PCI-E spec, which is horribly written and incomplete, but completely searchable due to its being available in PDF form; on the other hand, you have this better-written but almost completely unsearchable book. Great.

The index on this thing is worthless... The whole point of having a reference book, in my opinion, is to have quick, easy access to information when I need it. The point is not to have to read the book from cover to cover in order to find the information you need. Each time I try to get something out of this book, I get more and more frustrated.

On one hand, there's the PCI-E spec, which is horribly written and incomplete, but completely searchable due to its being available in PDF form; on the other hand, you have this better-written but almost completely unsearchable book. Great.

I think this is the best reference to date, March 2, 06. I found one omission that was costly to fix however, when accessing memory under 4-Gig, you must use the short header with the 32-bit address. Intel chip set checks this, they're the bandwidth police. The book does not mention this.

Book arriving in good status. Quick delivery time
I am fully satisfied.

There are two problems with this book. First, it uses figures from the specification. The PCI Express specification is very poor when it comes to figures, tables and charts. I had hoped that this book was going to have some decent figures, tables and charts, and provide more design help than the specification. Instead it simply rewords the specification. The second problem is that it is out of date. There has been numerous engineering change orders generated by the PCI special interest group [sig] against rev. 1.0a. The PCI sig has just come out with revision 1.1. This book covers neither. I have ordered a different book that someone told me about. I have been told this other book has addressed the above two problems, I hope so.

I was disappointed by this book. It took a lot of time to explain the basics of the spec but did not provide any additional design help or expanded technical info. I have had mixed results with other books for other buses in this series and this one is no better. If you carefully read the spec you will get about 97% of what is in this book. In several places the book simply uses parts of from the spec. directly. I wish the book took the time to create better figures and tables than what is in the spec. The spec is very poor on figures and tables and to use any portion of them is just a short cut in writing the book. I really wanted a book that either did not require reading the spec or a book that redid all of the poorly drawn or written parts of the spec. Also the spec is not very well organized, the book did a little bit better than the spec. in that category, but not as much as it should have. Again, it seems like a lot of short cuts were taken and no effort was made to really provide more detailed or organized information than the minimum. Perhaps that was the purpose of the book, but that is not what is needed. I just do not understand all of the positive reviews, unless the reviewers did not carefully read the spec. and did not know better. I just did not want to pay for shortcuts in the writing.

This book provides an another resource in addition to the PCI Express Specification. This is helpful since I'm at a small company where no one else is working on PCI Express at the moment. The book is well written and well organized. It is useful to me as a system architect as well as the other guys in my group who will be the designers on our next ASIC project.

This book is informative for system architect and designer for the PCI express. It explains the pros and cons of different bus architecture based on the PC system in clear, concise language and easy to understand. The PCI express protocol is also well explained.